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selfish-care

The belief that self improvement happens in a vacuum or begins and ends with oneself. As the opposite of collective care, selfish care symbolizes the hyper fixation of today's western society on individual efforts in regards to self improving and self care. Those individual efforts are often tied to capitalism and the self care industry, as well as colonialism.

iLiana Fokianaki explains in 'The Bureau of Care: Introductory Notes on the Care-less and Care-full':

"While depriving citizens of care, NAS narcissistic authoritarian statism nonetheless capitalizes on the individualist notion of care, widely promoted as “self-care” through an industry with billions in revenues. By ... taking care of oneself, contemporary subjectivities ... are tasked with the care of their overworked bodies, but are less and less interested in the well-being of bodies that are outside of the immediate realm of their family, class, workplace, city, country, and continent. They are further burdened with individual responsibility for their own care, since care has lost its character as a human right and has become a paid service. ".

Selfish care is the accumulation of influences from NAS on individual's belief systems about the notions of care. It represents the indoctrination of the capitalistic evolution of the care system, expressed through the associations with self care that tie it to a profit-driven industry.
"I can't come tonight, I need to do some face-masks and watch Netflix."

" Oh, so you're doing selfish-care tonight henny"

"I'm gonna treat myself. F*ck it, selfish-care"
"You do you, boo"
by soosoosoo December 10, 2023
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Take care of the dogs

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johnson care

A reference to Medicare. Based on the Affordable Care Act being called 'Obama Care', Medicare came in during the Johnson Administration of the 1960's, and so Johnson Care is used to refer to Medicare. Social Security came into effect during the Roosevelt administration of the 1930's, and so Social Security is referred to as Roosevelt Care.
I'm over 65 years old now, so I've signed up for Johnson Care.
by Ozzie321 October 26, 2019
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Pure White Care

Pure white care is a teeth whitening and oral care company based in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The company, launched in 2021 aims to become Africa’s leading oral care company with its mission to make you smile brighter from the comfort of your home!
“At the heart of pure white care, we want to serve better by using disruptive design, hand selected and high quality ingredients and a valued intention to bring brighter smiles to more faces around the world
by Purewhitecaresss November 22, 2021
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Cares

Vero boh and beatiful village in the north od Italy the guys that lives in this village are called “Caressati”
Are you a beautiful person?
Yes
Why?
Because i live in Cares
by Thegreat.fr November 21, 2021
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wish someone cared

the instant urge to flex your gf/bf on any social media
bro i “wish someone cared” it’s actually killing me i just wanna do it
by Dont make me nut November 21, 2021
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wish someone cared

the instant urge to flex your gf/bf on any social media
bro i “wish someone cared” it’s actually killing me i just wanna do it
by Dont make me nut November 21, 2021
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